New Directions in Manufacturing:

Report of a Workshop

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Publication Year:2004

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Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing, National Research Council
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The processes and techniques of manufacturing have changed substantially over the decades and that evolution continues today. In order to examine the potential impacts of these changes, the Department of Commerce asked the NRC to design a workshop to ...
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Front Matter	i-x
Executive Summary	1-4	(skim)
Part I Summary of the Workshop Sessions1 Manufacturing in the United States	5-10	(skim)
2 Challenges Facing U.S. Manufacturing Today	11-20	(skim)
3 New Directions	21-22	(skim)
Part II Presented Papers: Manufacturing in the U.S. Economy4 Keynote Address: The Administration's Manufacturing Policy	23-27	(skim)
5 U.S. Manufacturing at the Crossroads	28-33	(skim)
6 Innovation and U.S. Manufacturing	34-38	(skim)
Part III Presented Papers: View from Three Manufacturing Sectors7 Trends in Rural Manufacturing	39-45	(skim)
8 Issues for Small Manufacturing Enterprises	46-48	(skim)
9 Drivers and Challenges for U.S. Aerospace Manufacturing	49-54	(skim)
Part IV Presented Papers: Manufacturing Globalization10 Manufacturing Globalization: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?	55-60	(skim)
11 Manufacturing Globalization at United Technologies Corporation	61-64	(skim)
12 Insights on Outsourcing	65-72	(skim)
Part V Presented Papers: The Human Element in Manufacturing13 Keeping America Competitive	73-81	(skim)
14 Economic Challenges to American Manufacturing	82-87	(skim)
15 The Crisis in U.S. Manufacturing: A Union View	88-90	(skim)
16 The Human Component in Manufacturing	91-94	(skim)
Part VI Presented Papers: The Way Forward17 Standards and Infrastructure	95-99	(skim)
18 Collaborating to Meet Manufacturing Challenges	100-104	(skim)
19 Manufacturing, Energy, and the Future of New Technology	105-107	(skim)
20 Army Manufacturing Technology Program Responds to 21st Century Challenges	108-111	(skim)
21 Turning New Technologies into Products at Sandia National Laboratories	112-114	(skim)
Part VII Presented Papers: New Manufacturing Paradigm22 Manufacturing in a Digital Era	115-129	(skim)
23 Manufacturing Knowledge and the Arrow of Time	130-134	(skim)
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	135-140	(skim)
Appendix B Workshop Agenda	141-143	(skim)
Appendix C Acronyms and Abbreviations	144-146	(skim)

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The processes and techniques of manufacturing have changed substantially over the decades and that evolution continues today. In order to examine the potential impacts of these changes, the Department of Commerce asked the NRC to design a workshop to focus on issues central to the changing nature of manufacturing. The workshop brought together a number of experts to present papers about and to discuss the current state of manufacturing in the United States and the challenges it faces. This report presents the results of that workshop. Key challenges that emerged from the workshop and that are discussed include understanding manufacturing trends; manufacturing globalization; information technology opportunities; maintaining innovation; strengthening small and medium-sized enterprises; workforce education; and rising infrastructure costs.

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